After Effects 7.0 Spark trail

Does anyone know of a good tutorial on creating a spark trail e.g. like the sparks along a gunpowder trail.  I've looked everywhere.  I've found 3D text, smoke, fireworks, but no sparking trails.  I want one that is quite dense and compact that I can run at a bit of speed to reveal text.
Hopeful
PS I've labelled this as After Effects 7.0 because that is the version of After Effects our college forces us to use, so I'm hoping the tutorial works for that version too.

Also, not being able to run CS4, I get confused as to what components are part of the program and what are add-ins.
While created by a third-party external developer, the CC effects are part of AE ever since version 6.0. The better question is, whether they are actualyl installed on your computers at school, since it requires a separate install step in versions before CS3. If you are just looking for a 2D effect, CC Particle Systems II, as David suggested, is a good option. Also consider, that in fact there is a million ways to make fractal noise and other procedural patterns look like smoke, embers and sparks by animating their properties, tweaking their parameters and combining them with glows, blurs and distortion effects...
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